| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assemblage, accumulation |
| Synonyms: | acquisition, affair, aggregate, aggregation, association, band, body, bunch, caucus, clambake, collection, company, concentration, conclave, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, crowd, crush, drove, flock, function, gain, get-together, group, heap, herd, horde, huddle, junction, knot, levy, mass, meet, meeting, muster, parley, party, pile, powwow, rally, roundup, social function, society, stock, stockpile, swarm, throng, turnout, union |
| Main Entry: | group |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | number of individuals collectively |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, assembly, association, assortment, band, batch, battery, bevy, body, bunch, bundle, cartel, category, chain, circle, class, clique, clot, club, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, combination, combine, company, conglomerate, congregation, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, faction, formation, gang, gathering, grade, league, lot, mess, organization, pack, parcel, party, passel, platoon, pool, posse, set, shooting match, society, sort, suite, syndicate, troop, trust |
| Main Entry: | guild |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, fellowship |
| Synonyms: | club, company, corporation, federation, group, interest group, league, lodge, order, organization, profession, society, sodality, trade, union |
| Notes: | gild means to decorate with gold leaf or liquid gold while a guild is a formal association of people with similar interests |
| Main Entry: | high society |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fashionable society |
| Synonyms: | Four Hundred, aristocracy, beau monde, beautiful people, beautiful people, best people, café society, cream of society, crème de la crème, cultured class, elite, fashionable society, good society, haut monde, high life, jet set, jet set, polite society, privileged class, right people, smart set, societe, society, the Four Hundred, the better sorts, the privileged, upper class, upper crust |
| Main Entry: | humanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human race |
| Synonyms: | Homo sapiens, human beings, humankind, humanness, mankind, people, society |
| Main Entry: | humankind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the human race |
| Synonyms: | Homo sapiens, community, flesh, human beings, human species, humanity, mortality, mortals, people, populace, society |
| Main Entry: | institute/institution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization, usually educational |
| Synonyms: | academy, association, asylum, business, clinic, college, company, conservatory, establishment, fixture, foundation, guild, hospital, orphanage, school, seminar, seminary, society, system, think tank, university |
| Main Entry: | league |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, federation |
| Synonyms: | alliance, band, bunch, circle, circuit, club, coalition, combination, combine, compact, company, confederacy, confederation, conference, consortium, crew, gang, group, guild, loop, mob, order, organization, outfit, partnership, pool, ring, society, sodality, union, unit |
| Main Entry: | membership |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belonging to organization; those belonging to a group |
| Synonyms: | associates, association, body, club, company, enrollment, fellows, group, members, participation, society |